[Mesa-dev] [PATCH mesa] docs/submittingpatches: add mention about legal disclaimers

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On 22.03.2017 16:56, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at imgtec.com>
> ---
>  docs/submittingpatches.html | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html
> index 7910ae98f7..5310b1d8c1 100644
> --- a/docs/submittingpatches.html
> +++ b/docs/submittingpatches.html
> @@ -179,6 +179,16 @@ <h2 id="mailing">Mailing Patches</h2>
>  state of your old patches to Superseded.
>  </p>
>
> +<p>
> +Some companies' mail server automatically append a legal disclaimer,
> +usually containing something along the lines of "The information in this
> +email is confidential" and "distribution is strictly prohibited".<br/>
> +These legal notices prevent us from being able to accept your patch,
> +rendering the whole process pointless. Please make sure these are
> +disabled before sending your patches. (Note that you may need to contact
> +your email administrator for this.)
> +</p>

Somebody who is sending any kind of email to a public mailing list with 
this kind of disclaimer is already contradicting themselves, whether 
they're sending a patch or not. Anyway, perhaps this paragraph can help 
reduce the amount of ridiculousness in the world, so...

Reviewed-by: Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle at amd.com>


> +
>  <h2 id="reviewing">Reviewing Patches</h2>
>
>  <p>
>


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